(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Standing up to a bully requires more than slogans, press releases or carefully staged outrage. It requires looking power in the face, refusing intimidation...
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—The Constitution begins with three powerful words: “We the People.” History immediately asks: Which people?
When those words were written, “we” did not include enslaved...
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Dolly Parton left us rhinestones, laughter, business savvy—and one heck of a labor anthem. Her 1980 hit “9 to 5” was catchy enough for...
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The national debt has passed $40 trillion—that is $40,000,000,000,000, a number with more zeroes than most of us can comfortably count. The Congressional...
by Julianne Malveaux
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—When Head Start was launched in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, it rested on a profoundly democratic proposition:...
by Julianne Malveaux
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—The American Dream has always been sold as an installment plan: work hard, save something, buy a home, educate your children, retire...
by Julianne Malveaux
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts.
On July 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed...
by Julianne Malveaux
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—This week I am thinking about what it means to go back to school in a country that still rations opportunity. The...
by Julianne Malveaux
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Haiti is not an abstraction. Haiti is a nation whose pain has too often been treated as policy collateral, a people whose...
by Julianne Malveaux
(TriceEdneyWire.com—I have never been much for flag-waving patriotism. I respect the rituals, and I understand why some people are moved by them....